The best example of this for me is playing drums. It's a very physical thing to do and extremely easy to get caught up in the fun of it. You find yourself playing very hard with a lot of tension everywhere. The problem is that it's very difficult to do this for long periods and if you want to play a series of fast notes accurately, it's counterproductive. So, I'm constantly telling myself to play as soft and loose as possible until one day it hopefully becomes automatic.
Readit NewsMc_Big_G commented on The appropriate amount of effort is zero expandingawareness.org/bl... · Posted by u/gmays
Mc_Big_G commented on Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW suno.com/studio-welcome... · Posted by u/debrisapron
Even AI generated dubstep?
Yes
Mc_Big_G commented on The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers wired.com/story/oral-hist... · Posted by u/rendx
Peaceful protests, calling your reps, voting, and donating to organizations that have lawyers in the courts and lobbyists on Washington repping your interests are all super helpful relatively low effort steps that have impact when done en masse.
Respectfully, I've not seen any of these actions make a measurable difference in the last 10 years.
Mc_Big_G commented on Autodesk Increases APS Pricing aps.autodesk.com/blog/aps... · Posted by u/nsoonhui
Saw the screen print, wow. The last time I saw autodesk in action was in the DOS error. It advanced a lot.
But I am a bit surprised autodesk is still around, looks like it is still independent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk
>Autodesk's Media and Entertainment division creates software for visual effects, color grading, and editing as well as animation, game development, and design visualization.
Interesting, I wonder if this is a big help with keeping autodesk around. I would think there is a lot of $ in that activity.
Autodesk has been public (ADSK) for a long time.
Mc_Big_G commented on There Goes the American Muscle Car thedispatch.com/article/d... · Posted by u/pluripote
Acceleration times say nothing about the character of a car.
Anyone can launch a Model S or Taycan at insane accelerations just by pushing a pedal and letting the computer sort things out.
Trying to do so in a 1970s Camaro or a 1980s Sierra XR4 requires skill and practice whilst listening to the howl of the engine, feeling the texture of the road through the steering and sensing the suspension loading-up. All of that has been lost.
Driving has been reduced to an ordeal to be ensured with as little interaction with the vehicle as possible.
Driving has been reduced to an ordeal to be ensured with as little interaction with the vehicle as possible.
Let's hope that trend continues, ideally to the point that humans need to do nothing besides specify where they want to go. We're too careless to be trusted with the responsibility.
Mc_Big_G commented on So you wanna build an aging company librariesforthefuture.bio... · Posted by u/apsec112
Aside from being an unpopular opinion, it's also a rather stupid one. I can think of no better way to say it. Virtually every technology currently used by the majority of human beings in the world to make their lives better in some way started as a privilege of the wealthy, but the tendency of a timespan between it going from that to something widely and affordably affordable has historically not only held ground but shortened.
To deny the possibility of breakthrough medical therapies that possibly save millions of families from the tragedy of prematurely losing loved ones just out of some half baked spite against the rich is grossly short-sighted at best. If anything is unethical, it's such a worldview itself.
Immortality is not just another technological advancement. It entrenches power permanently and creates a world of slaves who will never escape the grip of their masters. Democracy would permanently die and the rule of law would be whatever the overlords decide. Imagine an immortal Caligula. Do you want Elmo to be your permanent master, for example?
Mc_Big_G commented on CT scans show cigarettes are harder on the lungs than marijuana healthimaging.com/topics/... · Posted by u/XzetaU8
I'd like to see smoking compare to vaping natural herb. It seems like the obvious, healthier choice.
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